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“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
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Verse 2. Command. It is probable that this order was given while Beseleel was working at the tabernacle. Calmet.—The people were to furnish the necessary sacrifices, and so forth by the half sicle, Exodus 30:3, and by voluntary contributions on the three great festivals, on which no one was to appear empty-handed, Exodus 23:15. Some chose to put their contributions towards the temple in the treasury, Lu. 21:1.—Oil: Hebrew “pure oil of the olive beaten, for light to,” and so forth
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